Angel Reese's mom takes apparent shot at Caitlin Clark's fan base: 'We ain't the same'

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Both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark had assemblage homecomings this past weekend, but the crowds appeared to beryllium vastly different.

Reese, present a subordinate of the Chicago Sky, played astatine her alma mater LSU connected Friday successful an accumulation against the Brazilian nationalist team, and determination were galore bare seats spotted.

Meanwhile, Clark's instrumentality to Iowa, besides against Brazil, sold retired successful nether an hour. Clark and her Indiana Fever played astatine the arena the 2024 archetypal wide prime called location for 4 years. It was wherever she became a household sanction amid a record-breaking assemblage career.

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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky during a crippled astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse connected June 16, 2024, successful Indianapolis. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

Despite some players saying determination is nary rivalry betwixt them amid tons of on- and off-court drama, Reese's parent inactive managed to instrumentality a changeable astatine a "certain instrumentality base."

Reese's Tigers, of course, defeated Iowa successful the 2023 nationalist championship, and the unofficial Reese-Clark rivalry began aft Reese taunted Clark successful the closing seconds of LSU's win. Reese's mother, Angel Webb Reese, reminded Clark fans of that time aft their homecoming contests.

"Aww that definite instrumentality basal looking successful the stands celebrating ‘attendance’ portion others are looking up successful the rafters celebrating title banners," Webb Reese wrote successful an X post. "We ain’t the same. Different twelvemonth aforesaid haters Have a large day."

Caitlin Clark of the Fever and Angel Reese of the Sky vie during their crippled connected June 1, 2024, successful Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)

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The remark continues what has been overmuch discussed among women's hoops players and fans. Reese claimed past twelvemonth that some Fever and Iowa fans had been racist toward Black WNBA players.

Clark, though, did her champion to enactment soundless amid the civilization wars.

"It's not thing I tin control. I don't enactment excessively overmuch thought and clip into reasoning astir things similar that. To beryllium honest, I don't spot a batch of it," Clark said past summer. "Like I've said, basketball's my job. Everything connected the outside, I can't power that, truthful I'm not going to walk clip reasoning astir that. People tin speech astir what they privation to speech about, make conversations astir immoderate it is, but I deliberation for myself, I'm conscionable present to play basketball.

"I'm present to person fun. I'm present to assistance my squad win. We've won 3 games, consciousness similar we've been successful a presumption to triumph a fewer much than that. My absorption is connected helping america bash that. I don't wage overmuch caput to each of that, to beryllium honest."